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Forgot a few: You're regularly subjected to worthiness interviews. Your ability to prove your worthiness determines your level of participation in the church. Worthiness (or ability to qualify) are very important things. If you're paying attention at church and if you're trying at all, you're going...

"Obedience is the first law of heaven" is what I always think of with regards to this topic. In the church we put WAY too much emphasis on trying to perfectly follow rules, even when doing so is damaging to our own mental health. Scrupulosity is one of the biggest things that made my missi...

“The Chorley boot camp also teaches missionaries how to use social media to find people for conversion by creating targeted Instagram Reel videos and Facebook posts. And they’re expected to send at least 50 social media messages per day to potential converts, based on who has engaged or interacted ...

And yet. To an atheist especially, which I am, there is something so unsettling about the ranks of shining faces beaming atop crisp white shirts and black ties or modest dresses awaiting instruction on how to persuade people to their way of thinking. Or, to put it more strongly, convince them of a ...

The funds that they've amassed go well beyond preparing for the future. Whatever happened to Jesus', "For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be add...

"Axiom". It appears I have learned a new word today. haha I am trying to be social within my peers in the church. But for some reason there is a mental block preventing me from doing so. I try to attend Home Evening with my YSA ward. However often times the activitiy is uninteresting caus...

Recently BYU announced a new "EFYSA" program for young single adults ages 18-30, modeled after EFY. https://efysa.byu.edu/ Come join the first ever Especially For Young Single Adults (EFYSA). Deepen your testimony of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ as you meet others and make lasting f...

“With frightening speed, a testimony that is not nourished daily ‘by the good word of God’ [Moroni 6:4] can crumble. Thus, the antidote to Satan’s scheme is clear: we need daily experiences worshipping the Lord and studying His gospel.” — President Russell M. Nelson, “ The Power of Spiritual Moment...

It's really really hard to get people to lie for you. So, to get these 11 people to give their testimony they saw the plates at the hand of an angel (the three witnesses) and that they actually held the plates upon being shown by Joseph Smith (the eight witnesses) lends credence to the authenticity...

Some time ago, a well-known and influential poster here on StayLDS made the comment that "all men look at pornography" (referring to LDS men). Based on this 2019 data, that doesn't seem to be the case. I also think the cross-generational differences are due a lot to the changing biology o...